Kara Lavender Law

Biographic Data

ID4980377
NAMEKara Lavender Law
GIVEN NAMESKara Lavender
FAMILY NAMELaw
SIGNATURELAW K L
AFFILIATIONSSea Education Association
ORCID0000-0002-5298-6751
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • Microplastics segregation by rise velocity at the ocean surface

    Open AccessMichelle H DiBenedetto, Jessica Donohue et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Predicting the vertical distribution of microplastics in the ocean surface mixed layer is necessary for extrapolating surface measurements and comparing observations across conditions. The competing mechanisms that control the vertical distribution are particle buoyancy, which is primarily a function of particle properties and drives microplastics to accumulate at the ocean surface, and turbulent mixing, which disperses microplastics throughout t…

  • Relative exposure to microplastics and prey for a pelagic forage fish

    Open AccessJulia M Chavarry, Kara Lavender Law et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    In the global ocean, more than 380 species are known to ingest microplastics (plastic particles less than 5 mm in size), including mid-trophic forage fishes central to pelagic food webs. Trophic pathways that bioaccumulate microplastics in marine food webs remain unclear. We assess the potential for the trophic transfer of microplastics through forage fishes, which are prey for diverse predators including commercial and protected species. Here, w…

  • Predicted growth in plastic waste exceeds efforts to mitigate plastic pollution

    Open AccessStephanie B Borrelle, Jeremy Ringma et al.ARTICLEScience2020

    A mess of plastic It is not clear what strategies will be most effective in mitigating harm from the global problem of plastic pollution. Borrelle et al. and Lau et al. discuss possible solutions and their impacts. Both groups found that substantial reductions in plastic-waste generation can be made in the coming decades with immediate, concerted, and vigorous action, but even in the best case scenario, huge quantities of plastic will still accum…

  • The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris

    Open AccessErik van Sebille, Stefano Aliani et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Marine plastic debris floating on the ocean surface is a major environmental problem. However, its distribution in the ocean is poorly mapped, and most of the plastic waste estimated to have entered the ocean from land is unaccounted for. Better understanding of how plastic debris is transported from coastal and marine sources is crucial to quantify and close the global inventory of marine plastics, which in turn represents critical information f…

  • Bridging barriers to advance global sustainability

    Open AccessElena G Irwin, Patricia J Culligan et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2018Cited by: 4References: 2

  • Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made

    Open AccessRoland Geyer, Jenna Jambeck et al.ARTICLEScience Advances2017

    We present the first ever global account of the production, use, and end-of-life fate of all plastics ever made by humankind.

  • All is not lost

    Open AccessAlbert A Koelmans, Merel Kooi et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017

    Understanding the global mass inventory is one of the main challenges in present research on plastic marine debris. Especially the fragmentation and vertical transport processes of oceanic plastic are poorly understood. However, whereas fragmentation rates are unknown, information on plastic emissions, concentrations of plastics in the ocean surface layer (OSL) and fragmentation mechanisms is available. Here, we apply a systems engineering analyt…

  • Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

    Open AccessJenna Jambeck, Jenna R Jambeck et al.ARTICLEScience2015

    Dumping lots of plastics into our oceans Considerable progress has been made in determining the amount and location of plastic debris in our seas, but how much plastic actually enters them in the first place is more uncertain. Jambeck et al. combine available data on solid waste with a model that uses population density and economic status to estimate the amount of land-based plastic waste entering the ocean. Unless waste management practices are…

  • A global inventory of small floating plastic debris

    Open AccessErik van Sebille, Chris Wilcox et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2015

    Microplastic debris floating at the ocean surface can harm marine life. Understanding the severity of this harm requires knowledge of plastic abundance and distributions. Dozens of expeditions measuring microplastics have been carried out since the 1970s, but they have primarily focused on theNorth Atlantic and North Pacific accumulation zones, with much sparser coverage elsewhere. Here, we use the largest dataset of microplastic measurements ass…